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<p>freenode server seems in trouble for this while, and I'd like to
take this chance to report my progress to the mailing lists.<br>
</p>
<p> I'm thankful to folks at #ghc and #smartos who helped me so much
in this journey, especially bgamari, without his hints and
bleeding edge patches this won't be possible at all.</p>
<p>And <a
href="https://www.mail-archive.com/smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org/msg05016.html">https://www.mail-archive.com/smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org/msg05016.html</a>
provided the information to get me started at all.<br>
</p>
<p>So far what's done:</p>
<p> :: installed 7.6.3 -> booted 7.10.3 -> booted 8.2.2
-> booted 8.4.4 -> booted 8.6.5 -> booted 8.8.2</p>
<p>Notable issues as I remembered: (I don't remember the details
clearly, anyway am to redo it all over again to have everything
logged for reprod)</p>
<ul>
<li>`gmake -i` is used to build 8.2.2 to workaround the stage1 ghc
crash after target file generated</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>8.6.5's ghci won't start<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p><code> [root@hswander /build/ghc8]# /opt/local/ghc8.6.5/bin/ghci</code><code></code><br>
<code></code><code> GHCi, version 8.6.5:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/">http://www.haskell.org/ghc/</a> :? for help</code><code></code><br>
<code></code><code> ghc: loadArchive: Not an archive:
`/usr/lib/iconv'</code><code></code><br>
<code></code><code> ghc: panic! (the 'impossible' happened)</code><code></code><br>
<code></code><code> (GHC version 8.6.5 for
x86_64-unknown-solaris2):</code><code></code><br>
<code></code><code> loadArchive "/usr/lib/iconv": failed</code><code></code><br>
<code></code><code> Please report this as a GHC bug:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug">http://www.haskell.org/ghc/reportabug</a></code><code></code><br>
</p>
<ul>
<li> worth to mention that I needed to put "SplitSections=YES"
into mk/build.mk even for 8.8.2 or it'll fail, might be
unexpected.</li>
</ul>
<p> And dtrace compiler on latest SmartOS don't support C++ style
line comment, so I applied this patch to 8.8.2
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gitlab.haskell.org/snippets/1549">https://gitlab.haskell.org/snippets/1549</a></p>
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<p>Meanwhile I'm starting a fresh smartos vm to repeat (and log) all
steps to make sure others and future me can follow such a
reproducible procedure to build later versions.<br>
</p>
<p>Cheers,</p>
<p>Compl</p>
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